Benefits of Being a Hackspace Foundation Member

These are things we intend to offer to member Hackspaces, some are already agreed in principle, others are aspirational

Confirmed (because they exist already)

• Pre-negotiated Hackspace insurance policy (liability and contents)
• Help and moral support from other spaces who've been there/done that
  • Case studies of what's worked, or not, at other spaces (e.g. access control, accounting)
  • Reference designs for common systems (e.g. access control, member management)

Agreed In Principle / Offered, but untested

• Gratis CAD Suite licenses
• Gratis CAM Software (which?)
• Support sourcing free/surplus materials (e.g. networking kit)
• Supplier discounts:
  • Rapid
  • Farnell (?)
  • mes3dfilaments.co.uk (via mailto:sales@metacad.co.uk)
  • CandyHero.com (discounts for bulk orders)
  • http://www.technobotsonline.com/

Aspirational

• Centralised hosting for websites, etc
• Federation network for websites and applications:
  • Diaspora/gnu social/mediagoblin nodes for interspace social media:'anybody know how a atomic force microscope works'(similar to rework network)
  • API booking visitors pass for a certain equipment. 'You have granted access to another space just to use this machine for 1 day'
  • email, xmpp, ...
  • 'trackable' Specialized and seldomly used tools that travel the spaces. E.G. 200mm spanner.
• Supplier discounts:
  • Avnet
  • Mouser
  • RS Components
  • Digikey
  • Arrow
  • Igus